There apparently are still not enough toxins New Orleans and the Gulf States - so "we" need to spray massive doses of pesticide POISONS to "save" the people.  . Please see how contaminated with pesticides New Orleans already is - www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1102029,00.html, and

 

 

 

 

 

Environmental Protection Agency Katrina Response Activity, Update - http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=30317

Tip Sheet - http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/514303/ See also:

 

 

 

ACOEM's Emergency Preparedness and Response Committee has a Occupational Health Coordinating Group.
http://www.acoem.org/emergency_prep/ohcg.asp
NIOSH's Office on Emergency Preparedness - http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/flood/
NCEH/ATSDR - http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/emergency/default.htm

 

 

Encephalitis Kills Another 53 in India - LUCKNOW, India -- The death toll from an outbreak of Japanese encephalitis in northern India reached 594, officials said Thursday, as another 53 people died overnight. Authorities struggled to find money for pesticides that could stop the spread of the mosquito-borne disease. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090801235.html

 

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A disaster site worker orientation briefing in PowerPoint format has been created by OSHA and NIEHS, for use in orienting disaster site workers as they are being deployed to the Katrina disaster recovery area. It is available on line at the NIEHS Clearinghouse for Worker Health and Safety Training at: http://www.niehs.nih.gov/wetp/clear.htm .

 

Wednesday, September 07, 2005 8:26 AM - Here's How You Can Make an Immediate Difference in Louisiana ...a message from Michael Moore - Friends, There is much to be said and done about the manmade annihilation of New Orleans, caused NOT by a hurricane but by the very specific decisions made by the Bush administration in the past four and a half years. Do not listen to anyone who says we can discuss all this later. No, we can't. Our country is in an immediate state of vulnerability. More hurricanes, wars, and other disasters are on the way, and a lazy bunch of self-satisfied lunatics are still running the show.  So, in the next few days, I will write to you about what must be done about Bush and Co.  But today I want you to join with me in bypassing the colossally inept and incompetent Bush administration and get help DIRECTLY to the people of the New Orleans area -- right now.  A lot of you have written me to ask what you can do. Many don't know who to trust. Many want to do more than write a check. You are right to think that writing checks to relief agencies will not get water and aid to people in the next 48 hours. Checks will be needed later and can be written later.

I have a way, though, for each and every one of us to do something today that can affect people's lives TODAY.  For the past few days I've been working with a group that, I guarantee you, will get direct aid to the people who need it most.  Cindy Sheehan, the brave woman who dared to challenge Mr. Bush at his summer home, has now sent her Camp Casey from in front of Bush's ranch to the outskirts of New Orleans. The Veterans for Peace have taken all the equipment and staff of volunteers and set up camp in Covington, Louisiana, on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. They are accepting materials and personally distributing them to those in need.

This is where we come in. We need to ship supplies to them immediately. Today they need the following:  Paper plates, paper towels, toilet paper, baby diapers, baby wipes, baby formula, Pedialyte, baby items in general, powder, lotion, handy wipes, sterile gloves, electrolytes, LARGE cans of veggies, school supplies, and anything else to lift people's spirits.  You can ship these items by following the instructions on VFPRoadTrips.org. Or you can deliver them there in person. The roads to Covington are open. Here's how to get there. You can drop them off or you can stay and participate (if you stay, you'll be camping so bring your own tent and gear and mosquito spray).  If you can't ship these items or go there in person, then go to VFPRoadTrips.org and make an immediate donation through PayPal. Camp Casey-Covington will have immediate access to this cash and can buy the items themselves from stores that are open in Louisiana (all donations to Veterans for Peace, are tax deductible).  Each day I will post up-to-the minute information as to what is needed and the progress Camp Casey is making. Please visit MichaelMoore.com often and do what you can to help.

Many other groups are also doing good work. MoveOn.org has set up a system for people to offer rooms in their homes to the survivors.  There is no time to waste. People are suffering and dying. Each of us can do something. There is no other alternative.

Thank you in advance for your help. Tomorrow, we will take care of the other work we need to do about the ideologically hamstrung incompetents in charge.  Yours, Michael Moore Mike@... - MichaelMoore.com

OCT 1ST CONFERENCE ON CHILDREN'S HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT - The Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health and the Environment (MACCHE) in conjunction with the Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene and the Region 3 Environmental Protection Agency will be hosting our annual conference on Children's Health and the Environment on Saturday Oct. 1st 2005 at the
Inner Harbor Marriott Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. http://www.gwu.edu/~macche/confe_oct1st2005.htm

 

Chemical Exposures Associated with Clandestine Methamphetamine Laboratories - http://nationaljewish.org/pdf/chemical_exposures.pdf

 

"Interim Guidance on Personal Protective Equipment and Clothing for Flood Response Workers" at:
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/flood/ppe-flood.html ... more information at http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/workers.asp
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September 7, 2005 - Navy Pilots Who Rescued Victims Are Reprimanded By DAVID S. CLOUD. PENSACOLA, Fla., Sept. 6 - Two Navy helicopter pilots and their crews returned from New Orleans on Aug. 30 expecting to be greeted as lifesavers after ferrying
more than 100 hurricane victims to safety.  Instead, their superiors chided the pilots, Lt. David Shand and Lt. Matt Udkow, at a meeting the next morning for rescuing civilians when their assignment that day had been to deliver food and water to military installations along the Gulf Coast. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/national/nationalspecial/07navy.html

 

Several comments:: "In 1965, the city of New Orleans, in the face of Hurricane Bessie, loaded a barge and dynamited the levy, diverting the water to the poor, lower 9th Ward because it was about to pour into the French Quarter. Bodies were found... My daughter waited for two days this week on a rooftop ... Helicopters wouldn't pick her up but they picked up people in the wealthy David Duke communities. A lot of people died because if you climb up in your attic in a flood with nothing to break the roof open, you're in trouble. When the sun comes up, you're in an oven, the water is so hot. We are calling for a body count. It will be astronomical."-- Allen Ray Bernard, former Director of Louisana Disabled Workers
Republican Whip,Tom DeLay countered that assessment later in a news conference by saying that the onus for responding to emergencies fell to local officials.  "It's the local officials trying to handle the problem. When they can't handle the problem, they go to the state, and the state does what they can to, and if they need assistance from FEMA and the federal government they ask for it and it's delivered," DeLay said."

"Yesterday on Oprah Winfrey's show they told how the dying are placed in the morgue to die peacefully.  What a sad way to die."

 

"The U.S. and other world powers should sign a treaty to outlaw the tampering with weather as an instrument of war. It may seem farfetched to think of using weather as a weapon -- but I'm convinced that the U.S. did, in fact, use rainmaking techniques as a weapon of war in Southeast Asia."  - "United States and Other World Powers Should Outlaw Tampering With Weather for Use as War Weapon", Editorial by Senator Claiborne Pell, D-Rhode Island, The Providence Journal Bulletin, 1975.

"To preserve the cooperative, peaceful uses of space for the benefit of all humankind by permanently prohibiting the basing of weapons in space by the United States, and to require the President to take action to adopt and implement a world treaty banning space-based weapons. The term `exotic weapons systems' includes weapons designed to damage space or natural ecosystems (such as the ionosphere and upper atmosphere) or climate, weather, and tectonic systems with the purpose of inducing damage or destruction upon a target population or region on earth or in space. Such terms include exotic weapons systems such as--chemical, biological, environmental, climate, or tectonic weapons." - `Space Preservation Act of 2001', H. R. 2977 107th Congress, 1st Session, October 2, 2001

"Some countries...are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important." - Secretary of Defense William Cohen speaking at an April 1997 terrorism conference at the University of Georgia, revealing the existence of weather weapons

"Weather-modification offers the war fighter a wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary... In the United States, weather-modification will likely become a part of national security policy with both domestic and international applications. Our government will pursue such a policy, depending on its interests, at various levels." - Air University of the US Air Force, AF 2025 Final Report

"Technology will make available, to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised... Techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm." - Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Adviser, Between Two Ages, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1992)

"It's as if the entire Gulf Coast were obliterated by the worst kind of weapon you can imagine.''- President George Bush, commenting on the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina,  from a Coast Guard Hanger in Mobile, Alabama, 9-2-05

"This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.''- Plato, circa 400 BC

Aftermath News Service - Special Report: Katrina Aftermath - September 8th, 2005 - ORDER OUT OF CHAOS, HORROR AND DEVASTATION

Massive morgues opened for Katrina dead - Two massive warehouses in Louisiana and Mississippi have been established as the collection of Hurricane Katrina`s dead goes into high gear. Although the storm`s announced death toll in Louisiana was just more than 200, officials Tuesday braced themselves and the public for a body count that could reach well into the thousands.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y39A251CB

Bracing for horror: Receding flood will yield more bodies - http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,605152689,00.html

Media groups say FEMA censors search for bodies - When U.S. officials asked the media not to take pictures of those killed by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, they were censoring a key part of the disaster story, free speech watchdogs said on Wednesday. The move by the Federal Emergency Management Agency is in line with the Bush administration's ban on images of flag-draped U.S. military coffins returning from the Iraq war, media monitors said in separate telephone interviews.http://makeashorterlink.com/?W1AA621CB

Katrina leaves 'toxic time-bomb' - http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=155094786&p=y55x9549z

New Orleans begins counting its dead - Chertoff:  "It is going to be ugly." New Orleans turned much of its attention Sunday to gathering up and counting the dead across a ghastly landscape awash in perhaps thousands of corpses. "It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine," the nation's homeland security chief warned.http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/04hurr.html

Amid horror, 2 officers commit suicide - 'World can't understand' -Sergeant Paul Accardo was the public face of the New Orleans Police Department, a spokesman who went in front of the TV camera on a regular basis, but Katrina and its harrowing aftermath were apparently too much for him. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/09/05/amid_horror_2_officers_commit_suicide/

Suicides among New Orleans police, firefighters - http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usweatherpolice

Survivors reveal Superdome horror - "There is rapes going on here. Women cannot go to the bathroom without men. They are raping them and slitting their throats." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4213214.stm

Superdome horrors leave survivors numb with shock - Happily, they are no longer cowering in the New Orleans Superdome, a place that turned mad with murders, rapes, suicide, abortions and the ammonia fumes of human waste. Or imprisoned in the convention centre without food or water, in the company of corpses.http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10344006

Anger grows in aftermath of Katrina - As U.S. authorities struggled to keep order across the ruined city of New Orleans, the continuing strain in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina erupted when gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors and the state's largest newspaper lashed out at the U.S. federal government's response.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050905.wkatrina0805/BNStory/International/

Landrieu slams Bush on 'stage set':- Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., charged Saturday President Bush's visit to a New Orleans levee Friday was a photo opportunity on a hastily prepared stage set. http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=113113&cat=World

Away from the coast and cameras, victims cope without much help - http://news.yahoo.com/s/krwashbureau/_wea_katrina_inland

U.S. Border Patrol Moved to Katrina Area, Border Vulnerable - U.S. Border Patrol officers are being shifted away from their posts guarding the U.S.-Mexico border to aid in the Katrina Hurricane disaster, leaving the country vulnerable to illegals and terrorists attempting to enter the U.S., NewsMax has learned. http://www.infowars.com/articles/new_orleans/border_patrol_moved_katrina_area.htm

Barbara Bush: Things Working Out 'Very Well' for Poor Evacuees from New Orleans - Accompanying her husband, former President George H.W.Bush, on a tour of hurricane relief centers in Houston, Barbara Bush said today, referring to the poor who had lost everything back home and evacuated, "This is working very well for them." http://www.infowars.com/articles/new_orleans/plaquemines_parish_update.htm

FEMA COMPLICITY

La. Official: Feds 'Murdered' Flood Victims - Federal bureaucrats who were slow to respond to the flood disaster in New Orleans "murdered" thousands of the city's residents who were left stranded for days witho ut help, Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard charged Sunday. "It's not just [Hurricane] Katrina that caused all these deaths in New Orleans here," an emotional Broussard told NBC's "Meet the Press." http://www.infowars.com/articles/new_orleans/la_official_feds_murdered_flood_victims.htm

FEMA chief waited until after storm hit - The government's disaster chief waited until hours after Hurricane Katrina had already struck the Gulf Coast before asking his boss to dispatch 1,000 Homeland Security employees to the region - and gave them two days to arrive, according to internal documents. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/12574946.htm 

FEMA Turned Away Aid, Rescue Crews, Cut Emergency Communication Lines: Witnesses - Agency draws ire of frustrated volunteers and donors In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, several witnesses have alleged that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) turned away volunteers who were ready to help New Orleans residents people trapped in their flooded homes. Other witnesses have said that FEMA turned away offers of aid, prevented water and fuel from reaching people on the ground, and cut emergency communications lines. http://dominionpaper.ca/international_news/2005/09/06/fema_turne.html

The Cavalry can't get past FEMA - Sir, they were told like me. Every single day. The cavalry is coming. On the federal level. The cavalry is coming. The cavalry is coming. The cavalry is coming. I have just begun to hear the hooves of the cavalry. The cavalry is still not here yet, but I have begun to hear the hooves and were almost a week out. http://www.antiwar.com/blog/comments.php?id=2344_0_1_0_C

Broussard: FEMA Helped Katrina Kill New Orleans
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=2&contentid=2722
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=2&contentid=2722&page=2

Senate Democrats voice concerns - Reid, Landrieu cite "serious problems" with initial fed response.  Two Democratic U.S. Senators expressed concern Saturday about the "serious problems and chaos" that have marked the Federal government's initial response to Hurricane Katrina, and urged President George W. Bush to do everything possible to help its victims.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?K268210CB

When the Levee Breaks ... FEMA Takes Over Killer Katrina was the Gulf Coast's 'tsunami' caused by steering a category-4 hurricane into the path of neglected levees and dumping vast quantities of water into a lake and river. The next hurricane is brewing in the Atlantic to finish the job "Mother Nature" started, but there is nothing natural about these storms. It is the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program used, as Bush described it, as "a weapon of mass destruction."
http://www.illuminati-news.com/when-the-levee-breaks.htm

ANOTHER WHITEWASH "INVESTIGATION"

BUSH PROMISES KATRINA PROBE - US President George W Bush has vowed to launch an investigation into his administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina, but he has rejected calls to sack senior officials leading the emergency operations.
http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=119991&region=4 see also: http://thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline/

Bush vows probe of 'what went wrong' -
http://www.boston.com/news/weather/articles/2005/09/07/bush_vows_probe_of_what_went_wrong/

Bush Vows Probe As More Unflattering FEMA Info Emerges - http://www.themoderatevoice.com/posts/1126073591.shtml

US congressional Republicans plan Katrina probe - Congressional Republican leaders said on Wednesday the Senate and House of Representatives will jointly investigate the response to Hurricane Katrina at all government levels, including the federal effort that has come under bipartisan fire. http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/mtarchives/week_2005_09_04.html#002439

Hillary wants Katrina probe - http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Hurricane_Katrina/0,,2-10-1942_1765526,00.html

MARITAL LAW IMPOSED

Commander: Military role in relief swells - More active-duty troops are joining the Hurricane Katrina relief effort than originally planned, and a senior commander said Monday they likely will be needed for months, not weeks.
http://www.newsobserver.com/24hour/politics/story/2688216p-11230758c.html

13th COSCOM joins almost 60,000 troops in Katrina relief - Soldiers of the 13th Corps Support Command from Fort Hood, Texas, are deploying to New Orleans this week in support of Joint Task Force Katrina. http://www4.army.mil/ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=7865

Military Response to Katrina Intensifies - The 60,000 U.S. military forces on the ground in the hurricane-decimated Gulf Coast region are carrying out President Bush's priorities -- saving, then sustaining lives -- before getting to the tasks of recovery and reconstruction, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Sept. 6 during an interview on Fox News Channel. 
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2005/20050907_2633.html

Troops Coax New Orleans' Holdouts From Homes - http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5262051,00.html

82nd to help scour New Orleans - 82nd Airborne is taking over security operations
http://www.newsobserver.com/weather/severe_weather/katrina/story/2790119p-9229188c.html

82nd chief gets lead role - Officials warn of horrors yet to come Maj. Gen. Bill Caldwell will direct troops assigned to establish calm.
http://www.newsobserver.com/weather/severe_weather/katrina/story/2787017p-9226257c.html

Mayor threatens forced evacuations - To the estimated 10,000 residents still holed up in New Orleans, the mayor had a blunt new warning: Get out now or risk being taken out by force. http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1905142005

Mexico sends first aid convoy ever to U.S. Gesture fraught with symbolism, irony. - http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9248064/

First Mexican military convoy to U.S. at border for Katrina's victims
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050908/APN/509080519

Mexico sends first aid convoy to U.S. - A Mexican ship laden with hurricane relief supplies anchored off Mississippi Wednesday night, while an aid-bearing Mexican army convoy reached the U.S. border in a journey marking the first time its military has aided the United States. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Katrina%20Mexico

Mexican army convoys head for U.S. to deliver aid - http://www.klfy.com/Global/story.asp?S=3815321 and
http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-19/112615584172450.xml&storylist=hurricane

Mexican military aid convoy makes history - http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/09/08/2003270850

Empty, ruined and desperate -· Military takes over as ghost city faces new horrors ·  Police shoot dead five people carrying guns
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,16441,1562789,00.html

The Siege of New Orleans; a beachhead for the new world order - There's nothing accidental about the current developments on the ground.  The orders are clear: "Empty the city, Cut off communications between the citizenry, and Protect private property." The result is a massive ethnic cleansing operation that will displace tens of thousands of poor, black residents and pave the way for Halliburton and other major Bush contributors to rebuild the city at taxpayer expense. This is the clearest illustration of class-based warfare we have seen to date, but we expect more will follow. The Bush administration has established its first domestic beachhead in the "Big Easy", where 50,000 fully-armed troops now patrol the streets giving us our first unobstructed-view of New World Order.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m15454&l=i&size=1&hd=0

Urban "combat" in New Orleans -and ethnic cleansing? A front-page story in Army Times Sept. 2, "Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans," states: Combat operations are underway on the streets "to take this city back" in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
"This place is going to look like Little Somalia," Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard's Joint Task Force told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge prepared to launch a massive citywide security mission from a staging area outside the Louisiana Superdome. "We're going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control." http://www.ww4report.com/node/1048

Their mission, simply, is to turn New Orleans into a police state - to "regain the city,"
http://www.infowars.com/articles/new_orleans/mission_police_state.htm

Sonic 'Lasers' Head to Flood Zone - Air-raid sirens, Frank Sinatra songs and Muhammad Ali trash talk blared over the Southern California desert in a demonstration of new acoustic technology for crowd control and disaster communications. In mid-90's morning heat at Edwards Air Force Base, HPV Technologies and American Technology demonstrated prototypes of non-lethal sonic devices for a group of military and law enforcement guests, including representatives of the U.K. Home Office. Representatives of both companies say that within days, they will ship some units of their respective products to areas hit by Hurricane Katrina, so authorities can use the tools for crowd control, aid distribution and rescue operations. http://www.infowars.com/articles/new_orleans/sonic_lasers_in_flood_zone.htm

New World Orleans: Microcosm for the "New America" - Special report on the elite police state takeover.  Imagine an America where everyone is displaced. It's survival of the fittest as all law and order has broken down. Martial law has been declared with 24 hr curfews, Posse Comitatus has been overturned and there are troops on the streets shooting anyone who disobeys their orders. Thousands and thousands of people are starving but the authorities will not allow aid in any significant amounts. Large crowds are quelled with the use of sonic lasers, whilst overhead drone aircraft monitor the area, checking for any anomalous activity.
http://www.infowars.com/articles/new_orleans/new_world_orleans.htm

Commander says troops were on the move before storm arrived - ENTAGON Even before Hurricane Katrina arrived on the Gulf Coast, a top military commander says, U-S troops were on their way to the region.
http://www.kcautv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3807555

The Military Is Frisking Little Children Before Rescuing Them - http://prisonplanet.com/Pages/Sept05/040905frisking.htm

U.S. vows to end New Orleans' violent crime wave - http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/weather_katrina_crime_dc

ORCHESTRATED ECONOMIC IMPLOSION

Report: 400,000 jobs lost to Katrina - The economic impact from Hurricane Katrina will wipe out 400,000 jobs, cost consumers 40 percent more for gasoline this month and slash previous estimates for growth this year, a hastily prepared report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office concludes. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05251/567466.stm

Hurricane Katrina to reduce employment
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8CFKMH80.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down&chan=db 

Gulf Coast Jobless Rate Could Hit 25 Pct.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050904/ap_on_bi_ge/katrina_unemployed_hk3

Katrina sparks fears of a global crisis - THE head of the West's energy watchdog has warned that Hurricane Katrina could spark a worldwide energy crisis if damage to US refineries led to a big increase in US purchases of European petrol. The International Monetary Fund's chief added to the uncertainty, warning the high price of oil posed an increasing risk to global economic growth, which under current estimates will be above 4 per cent this year. http://makeashorterlink.com/?A63A16DBB 

Out of Storage, La. Farmers Dump Milk - Farmers near the area devastated by Hurricane Katrina are dumping their milk because they've run out of room to store it, even as thousands of people go hungry in the New Orleans area.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050904/ap_on_re_us/brf_katrina_dairies

PRICE GOUGING AND WALLET LOOTING

Higher grocery bills in storm aftermath - Shoppers may have to pay more for coffee, vegetables and some household products. Americans already feel worsening daily gas pains. A few months, or even a few weeks from now, consumers could be dishing out more for grocery bills, too. http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/02/news/economy/katrina_retailimpact/index.htm

Big oil is nation's biggest looter - White House fixates on the stealing by thieves and desperate families, but ignores the stealing done in corporate board rooms. Of the world's seven most profitable corporations, four are ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, and Chevron. ExxonMobil is the world's most profitable company, making $25.3 billion last year. It and the other three corporations had combined profits last year of $72.8 billion. ExxonMobil is also the world's most valuable company, with a market value, according to Forbes magazine, of $405 billion. The combined market value of ExxonMobil, BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron is nearly $1 trillion. And that was last year. A month ago, ExxonMobil, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips announced record second-quarter profits of $7.6 billion, $3.7 billion, and $3.1 billion, respectively. Royal Dutch Shell's quarterly profits of $5.2 billion were up by 34 percent over the same period last year. Other well-known companies like Sunoco also had record second-quarter earnings.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/opinion/articles/1813827.html

The Lies To Hike The Price Of Oil - A more appropriate title for this piece would have been "Orchestrating Financial Collapse".
http://www.rense.com/general67/PRICE.HTM

Seven Attorneys General State Gas Price Inquiry - State Attorney General Roy Cooper on Friday joined attorneys general from Florida, Alabama and other states to launch an inquiry into rapidly rising gas prices. http://www.thepilot.com/news/090405attorneygen.html

City, State Lawmakers Move To Crack Down On Gas Gouging - http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=3&aid=53224

How to stop gas price gouging in New York - http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/343139p-293050c.html

AG joining nationwide gas-price investigation - Guam Attorney General Douglas Moylan announced that his office is joining a nationwide investigation of gas prices, which continue to reach record highs on Guam and many parts of the nation.
http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050906/NEWS01/509060306/1002

Truckers ask 'What can I do?' As diesel prices escalate, truck drivers say being your own boss is becoming less appealing.
"Less money means more miles I have to drive," said Horatio Asdilean, an independent driver from Redlands, Calif. He stopped Saturday to fill up at the Petro Truck Stop in Glade Spring, where diesel was going for $2.85 a gallon.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q378260CB

MORE JUICY CONTRACTS FOR THE PERPETRATORS

Halliburton Subsidiary Taps Contract For Repairs - An Arlington-based Halliburton Co. subsidiary that has been criticized for its reconstruction work in Iraq has begun tapping a $500 million Navy contract to do emergency repairs at Gulf Coast naval and Marine facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina. The subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root Services Inc., won the competitive bid contract last July to provide debris removal and other emergency work associated with natural disasters.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/04/AR2005090401193.html?sub=AR

Army Contract Official Critical of Halliburton Pact Is Demoted  - Bunnatine H Greenhouse, top Army contracting official who criticized large, noncompetitive contract with Halliburton and its Kellogg Brown & Root subsidiary for work in Iraq, is demoted for what Army calls poor job performance; fought demotion through official channels; her lawyer Michael Kohn says demotion violates Army secretary's commitment to wait on any action, pending investigation by inspector general.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20912FF3D550C7A8EDDA10894DD404482

Halliburton Contracts Illegal - But Bush Busts The Whistleblower
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_evelyn_p_050830_halliburton_contract.htm

WEATHER WARFARE -

HARNESSING WEATHER -ALLEGATIONS SURFACE THAT U.S. & RUSSIA HAVE TECHNOLOGY TO MANAGE HURRICANES
Could this devastation have been avoided? Could Katrina itself have been avoided as a death-dealing hurricane? The answers to both questions are probably "Yes." The ability of Russia and the United States to create storms of this magnitude definitely exists.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/harnessing_weather.html

Catastrophic Success - Are we crazy for suggesting it's possible, or are they crazy for making it possible?  There is something unnatural about this. I don't mean to suggest that the hurricane was driven by HAARP or scalar waves, though I could. Because as I've said before, we are entering a period of human history - the final period, if we don't watch ourselves - in which our speaking of the natural world means little more than a nostalgic conceit. That which used to be expressly "Acts of God" are being folded into the mission of the US military. Hurricanes are steered by winds in the upper atmosphere, and HAARP gives the Pentagon "strategic control over the upper atmosphere." Are we crazy for suggesting it's possible, or are they crazy for making it possible?
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m15275&l=i&size=1&hd=0

The Military's Pandora's Box - HAARP Boils the Upper Atmosphere - Department of Defense sampled lightning and hurricane manipulation studies The military has had about twenty years to work on weather warfare methods, which it euphemistically calls weather modification. For example, rainmaking technology was taken for a few test rides in Vietnam. The U.S. Department of Defense sampled lightning and hurricane manipulation studies in Project Skyfire and Project Stormfury. And they looked at some complicated technologies that would give big effects.  http://www.freedomdomain.com/weathercontrol/pandora.htm 

Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act of 2005 - S 517 IS (Introduced in Senate)
The term `weather modification' means changing or controlling, or attempting to change or control, by artificial methods the natural development of atmospheric cloud forms or precipitation forms which occur in the troposphere.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:S.517.IS:

MORE GLOBAL EFFECTS

Katrina Forces London to Examine Defense - Waves of crushing water may seem out of place on the River Thames, which snakes lazily through London. But the British capital has long lived with the threat of catastrophic flooding.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050906/ap_on_re_eu/britain_flood_control

Asian Countries Offer U.S. Hurricane Aid - Some of the world's poorest nations - Bangladesh,   Afghanistan and tsunami-hit Thailand - have offered the United States aid and expertise to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050906/ap_on_re_as/katrina_world

 

 

 

SEE ALSO: http://www.uruknet.info/?p=15454 and http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Margolis_Eric/2005/09/04/1201356.html

 

 

 

 

"If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realization that the New World Order, means we are all to be managed and not represented." -- Tony Benn, British Labour Party member of Parliament - CovertAction Quarterly, April / June 2001, p43

 

 

 

IN THIS EPA UPDATE:
1)Revised Risk Assessments for Dimethoate Now Available
2)Pesticide Federal Register Items for the Week of August 29 - September 2, 2005
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1)Revised Risk Assessments for Dimethoate Now Available
EPA has announced the availability of EPA?s revised risk assessments for the organophosphate pesticide dimethoate.  In addition, this notice solicits public comment on risk reduction options for dimethoate.  The public is encouraged to suggest risk management ideas or proposals to address the risks identified.  EPA is developing an Interim Reregistration Eligibility Decision (IRED), for dimethoate through the full, 6-phase public participation process that the Agency uses to involve the public in developing pesticide reregistration and tolerance reassessment decisions.  Through these programs, EPA is ensuring that all pesticides meet current health and safety standards.
Dimethoate is a systemic organophosphate insecticide used for control of a wide variety of insect pests on a number of fruit, vegetable, grain, and field crops, as well as ornamentals and non-cropland adjacent to agriculture fields.  Further information on dimethoate can be found at:  http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/op/dimethoate.htm
The public comment period will remain open until November 7, 2005. 
The Federal Register notice is available at:  http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2005/September/Day-06/p17545.htm
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2)Pesticide Federal Register Items for the Week of August 29 ? September 2, 2005
The Office of Pesticide Programs published the following 13 items in the Federal Register during the past week:
* Chlorsulfuron Reregistration Eligibility Decision
* Ethalfluralin; Notice of Filing a Pesticide Petition to Establish a Tolerance for a Certain Pesticide Chemical in or on Food
* Thiram; Amendment to Terminate Uses
* Full Tribal Pesticide Program Council (TPPC); Notice of Public Meeting
* Flonicamid; Pesticide Tolerance
* Methoxyfenozide; Pesticide Tolerances for Emergency Exemptions
* Fenarimol; Notice of Filing a Pesticide Petition to Establish a Tolerance for a Certain Pesticide Chemical in or on Food 
* Pesticide Emergency Exemptions; Agency Decisions and State and Federal Agency Crisis Declarations
* Halosulfuron-methyl; Pesticide Tolerances for Emergency Exemptions
* Dicofol; Addendum and Closure of Reregistration Eligibility Decision; Notice of Availability
* Lactic Acid, 2-Ethylhexyl Ester; Exemption from the Requirement of a Tolerance
* Permethrin; Notice of Availability of Risk Assessments and Opening of Docket
* S-metolachlor; Pesticide Tolerance
Title: Chlorsulfuron Reregistration Eligibility Decision
Date of publication: August 31, 2005
Citation: Volume 70, Number 168, Page 51793
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2005/August/Day-31/p16384.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the availability of EPA's Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) for the pesticide chlorsulfuron. The Agency's risk assessments and other related documents also are available in the chlorsulfuron Docket. Chlorsulfuron is used as a pre-and post-emergent herbicide to control a variety of weeds on cereal grains, pasture and rangeland, industrial sites, and turf grass. EPA has reviewed chlorsulfuron through the public participation process that the Agency uses to involve the public in developing pesticide reregistration and tolerance reassessment decisions. Through these programs, EPA is ensuring that all pesticides meet current health and safety standards.
Chemical(s): Chlorsulfuron**
Comments: Comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number OPP-2004-0219.
Contact: Susan Jennings, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508C), (703) 355-8574; e-mail address jennings.susan@....*
Title: Ethalfluralin; Notice of Filing a Pesticide Petition to Establish a Tolerance for a Certain Pesticide Chemical in or on Food
Date of publication: August 31, 2005
Citation: Volume 70, Number 168, Page 51797-51802
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2005/August/Day-31/p17124.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of a certain pesticide chemical in or on various food commodities.
Chemical(s): Ethalfluralin
Comments: Comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number OPP-2005-0195, must be received on or before September 30, 2005.
Contact: Sidney Jackson, Registration Division (7505C), (703) 305-7610; e-mail address jackson.sidney@....*
Title: Thiram; Amendment to Terminate Uses
Date of publication:  August 31, 2005
Citation: Volume 70, Number 168, page 51796-51797
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2005/August/Day-31/p17126.htm
Purpose: This notice announces EPA's order for the amendment to terminate uses, voluntarily requested by the registrant and accepted by the Agency, of products containing the pesticide thiram, pursuant to section 6(f)(1) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), as amended. This cancellation order follows an April 27, 2005 Federal Register Notice of Receipt of Request from the thiram registrant to voluntarily amend to terminate uses of thiram in or on apples. These are not the last thiram products registered for use in the United States. In the April 27, 2005 Notice, EPA indicated that it would issue an order implementing the amendment to terminate uses, unless the Agency received substantive comments within the 30-day comment period that would merit its further review of this request, or unless the registrant withdrew their request within this period. The Agency did not receive any comments on the Notice. Further, the registrant did not
withdraw their request. Accordingly, EPA hereby issues in this notice a cancellation order granting the requested amendment to terminate uses. Any distribution, sale, or use of the thiram products subject to this cancellation order is permitted only in accordance with the terms of this order, including any existing stocks provisions.
Chemical(s): Thiram **
Comments: Comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number OPP-2004-0183
Contact: Craig Doty, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508C), (703) 308-0122; e-mail address: doty.craig@.... *
Title: Full Tribal Pesticide Program Council (TPPC); Notice of Public Meeting
Date of publication: August 31, 2005 
Citation: Volume 70, Number 168, Page 51789-51790
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2005/August/Day-31/p17127.htm
Purpose:  The Tribal Pesticide Program Council (TPPC) will hold a 21/89/21/13/23/85/83/8-day meeting, beginning on September 13 and ending on September 15, 2005. This notice announces the location and times for the meeting, and sets forth the tentative agenda topics. One Tribal Caucus is scheduled each day.
Chemical(s):  N/A
Dates: The meeting will be held on September 13 and 14, 2005, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and half day on September 15, 2005.
Contact: Georgia McDuffie, Field and External Affairs Division (7506C), (703) 605-0195; e-mail address: duffie.georgia@.... *
Title: Flonicamid; Pesticide Tolerance
Date of publication: August 31, 2005
Citation: Volume 70, Number 168, Page 51604-51615
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2005/August/Day-31/p17128.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes a tolerance for combined residues of flonicamid and its metabolites in or on certain plant and livestock commodities. ISK Biosciences requested this tolerance under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).
Chemical(s): Flonicamid
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under Docket identification (ID) number OPP-2005-0217
Contact: Ann Sibold, Registration Division (7505C), (703) 305-6502; e-mail address sibold.ann@.... *
Title: Methoxyfenozide; Pesticide Tolerances for Emergency Exemptions
Date of publication: August 31, 2005 
Citation: Volume 70, Number 168, Page 51597-51604
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2005/August/Day-10/p15604.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes time-limited tolerances for residues of methoxyfenozide in or on sorghum grain, sorghum grain forage, and sorghum grain stover. This action is in response to EPA's granting of an emergency exemption under section 18 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) authorizing use of the pesticide on sorghum grain. This regulation establishes a maximum permissible level for residues of methoxyfenozide in these food commodities. These tolerances will expire and are revoked on December 31, 2007.
Chemical(s):  Methoxyfenozide
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number OPP-2005-0224.
Contact: Stacey Milan Groce, Registration Division (7505C), telephone number: (703) 305-2505; e-mail address: Milan.stacey@.... *
Title: Fenarimol; Notice of Filing a Pesticide Petition to Establish a Tolerance for a Certain Pesticide Chemical in or on Food 
Date of publication: August 31, 2005 
Citation: Volume 70, Number 168, Page 51802-51806
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2005/August/Day-31/p17195.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of a certain pesticide chemical in or on various food commodities.
Chemical(s): Fenarimol
Comments: Comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number OPP-2005-0235, must be received on or before September 30, 2005.
Contact: Barbara Madden, Registration Division (7505C), (703) 305-6463; e-mail address: madden.barbara@.... *
Title: Pesticide Emergency Exemptions; Agency Decisions and State and Federal Agency Crisis Declarations
Date of publication: August 31, 2005 
Citation: Volume 70, Number 168, Page 51806-51810
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2005/August/Day-31/p17201.htm
Purpose: EPA has granted or denied emergency exemptions under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) for use of pesticides as listed in this notice. The exemptions or denials were granted during the period April 1, 2005 to June 30, 2005 to control unforeseen pest outbreaks.
Chemical(s): Various
Comments: EPA has established an official public docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number OPP-2005-0223.
Contact: See each emergency exemption or denial for the name of a contact person.  (703) 308-9366. *
Title: Halosulfuron-methyl; Pesticide Tolerances for Emergency Exemptions
Date of publication: August 31, 2005 
Citation: Volume 70, Number 168, Page 51615-51623
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2005/August/Day-31/p17204.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes a time-limited tolerance for residues of halosulfuron-methyl in or on sweet potatoes. This action is in response to EPA's granting of an emergency exemption under section 18 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) authorizing use of the pesticide on sweet potatoes. This regulation establishes a maximum permissible level for residues of halosulfuron-methyl in this food commodity. The tolerance will expire and is revoked on December 31, 2008.
Chemical(s): Halosulfuron-methyl
Comments: This regulation is effective August 31, 2005. Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or before October 31, 2005.
Contact: Andrew Ertman, Registration Division (7505C), (703) 308-9367; e-mail address: ertman.andrew@.... *
Title: Dicofol; Addendum and Closure of Reregistration Eligibility Decision; Notice of Availability
Date of publication: August 31, 2005 
Citation: Volume 70, Number 168, Page 51794-51796
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2005/August/Day-31/p17205.htm
Purpose: This notice announces EPA's intention to resolve certain issues not addressed in the 1998 Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) for the miticide dicofol, and opens a public comment period on this addendum. At the time the RED was completed, the Agency was concerned with risks posed to occupational workers. In order to adequately determine re-entry intervals (REIs), the registrant submitted a dermal toxicity study and a chemical specific dislodgeable foliar residue study. The Agency has reviewed these studies and continues to be concerned with occupational exposure from most crops. To protect workers, the Agency has determined that longer REIs are
required. The addendum to the dicofol RED establishes REIs that were not finalized in the RED and provides rationale and potential impact analysis for establishing longer REIs. The Agency is seeking public comment on the practicality of the new REIs. If the new REIs are not practical, commenters should provide an explanation why, and explain why alternatives cannot be used to replace dicofol. EPA believes that increasing REIs for these crops will not likely result in negative economic or biological impacts.
Chemical(s): Dicofol **
Comments: Comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number OPP-2005-0220, must be received on or before September 30, 2005.
Contact: Mika J. Hunter, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508C), (703) 308-0041; e-mail address: hunter.mika@.... *
Title: Lactic Acid, 2-Ethylhexyl Ester; Exemption from the Requirement of a Tolerance
Date of publication: August 31, 2005 
Citation: Volume 70, Number 168, Page 51623-51628
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2005/August/Day-31/p17360.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes four exemptions from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of lactic acid, 2-ethylhexyl ester or ethylhexyl lactate when used as an inert ingredient (solvent) in or on growing crops, when applied to raw agricultural commodities after harvest, or to animals. Purac America, Inc. submitted a petition to EPA under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA), requesting an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance. This regulation eliminates the need to establish a maximum permissible level for residues of lactic acid, 2-ethylhexyl ester.
Chemical(s):  Lactic Acid, 2-Ethylhexyl Ester
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under Docket identification (ID) number OPP-2003-0230. Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or before October 31, 2005.
Contact: Kathryn Boyle, Registration Division (7505C), (703) 305-6304; e-mail address: boyle.kathryn@.... *
Title: Permethrin; Notice of Availability of Risk Assessments and Opening of Docket
Date of publication: August 31, 2005 
Citation: Volume 70, Number 168, Page 51790-51792
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2005/August/Day-31/p17365.htm
Purpose: This notice announces the availability of EPA's preliminary human health and ecological risk assessments and related documents for permethrin, a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide, and opens a public comment period on these documents. The public is encouraged to provide information to refine assessed risks, and suggest risk management ideas or proposals to address the risks identified. At this time, EPA is intending to develop a Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) for permethrin through a modified 4-phase public participation process that the Agency uses to involve the public in developing pesticide reregistration and tolerance assessment decisions. For permethrin, a modified 4-Phase process with one public comment period and ample opportunity for public consultation seems appropriate in view of the number and level of
risk concerns identified in the preliminary risk assessment. However, if as a result of comments received during this comment period EPA finds that additional issues warranting further discussion are raised, the Agency may consider an additional comment period, as needed. Through this program, EPA is ensuring that all pesticides meet current health and safety standards. This notice is phase-3 of the 4-phase process.
Chemical(s):  Permethrin **
Comments: Comments, identified by docket identification (ID) number OPP-2004-0385 must be received on or before October 31, 2005.
Contact: Jacqueline Guerry, Chemical Review Manager, Special Review and Reregistration Division (7508C), (703) 305-0024; e-mail address: guerry.jacqueline@.... *
Title: S-metolachlor; Pesticide Tolerance
Date of publication: August 31, 2005 
Citation: Volume 70, Number 168, Page 51628-51638
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2005/August/Day-31/p17367.htm
Purpose: This regulation establishes tolerances for combined residues (free and bound) of S-metolachlor in or on certain commodities as set forth in Unit II. of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. The Interregional Research Project Number 4 (IR-4), 681 U.S. Highway #1 South, North Brunswick, NJ 08902-3390, requested these tolerances under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA), on behalf of the registrant, Syngenta Crop Protection, Swing Road, Greensboro, NC 276419.
Chemical(s):  S-metolachlor
Comments: EPA has established a docket for this action under docket identification (ID) number OPP-2004-0326. Objections and requests for hearings must be received on or before October 31, 2005.
Contact: Sidney Jackson, Registration Division (7505C), (703) 305-7610; e-mail address: jackson.sidney@.... *
*Mailing address for all listed staff: Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460

 

 

 

FEMA won't accept Amtrak's help in evacuations - http://news.ft.com/cms/s/84aa35cc-1da8-11da-b40b-00000e2511c8.html
FEMA turns away experienced firefighters - http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/5/105538/7048
FEMA turns back Wal-Mart supply trucks - http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspecial/05blame.html
FEMA prevents Coast Guard from delivering diesel fuel - http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspecial/05blame.html
FEMA won't let Red Cross deliver food - http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05246/565143.stm
FEMA bars morticians from entering New Orleans - http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15147862&BRD=1817&PAG=461&dept_id=68561&rfi=6
FEMA blocks 500-boat citizen flotilla from delivering aid - http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/3/171718/0826
FEMA fails to utilize Navy ship with 600-bed hospital on board
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509040369sep04,1,4144825.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
FEMA to Chicago: Send just one truck - http://www.chicagotribune.com/services/site/premium/access-registered.intercept
FEMA turns away generators - http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html
FEMA: "First Responders Urged Not To Respond" - http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18470

 

 

News Letter- The time has come to take a new direction in the fight against the use and misuse of dangerous pesticide POISONS and other harmful actions/products.  And to further the movement of using safe alternatives, a new Yahoo Group is now established called TheBugStopsHere, which is named after the book I first published on the internet and which still can be downloaded FREE or bookmarked at http://www.safesolutionsinc.com  or http://www.thebestcontrol.com .  For years, Linda used to post information to my websites (www.getipm.com to name only one) but, theamount of  information has grown so much that I now have to send out a daily newsletter.  Because even the greatly condensed information that is sent out in my News Letter can be overwhelming in volume at times, some people may simply elect to be removed from my email list and check out: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thebugstopshere - this site will now be a repository for my News Letter.  Since I am the owner of the group and it is set up for the broadcast of my newsletter only, you can still request information from me by replying to the owner of the group in the following manner:  Send an email to me at thebugstopshere-owner@yahoogroups.com.  Remember, you must be a member of the group to receive the News Letter and if you do not want to join, the information can still be viewed by anyone in the public domain using the internet.   To subscribe, send an email to thebugstopshere-subscribe@yahoogroups.com 

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I have posted a lot of free pest control alternatives and other relevant information on the websites located at: http://www.safesolutionsinc.com/resources.htm and/or http://www.thebestcontrol.com .  There is a free 86 page booklet on how to control most pest problems without using any pesticide POISONS entitled: THE BUG STOPS HERE.  There is a free chapter on Lice/Scabies, a chapter on Mosquitoes, a free chapter on Detoxification and a section on fire ants from my newest IPM manual/encyclopedia entitled: THE BEST CONTROL II.  All of these copyrighted items are free for you to simply read and/or download.  There simply is no need to POISON yourself. 

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"The level of pesticide spraying is the highest in the world, and little concern is shown for the people who live near the cotton fields ... 30 or 40 people a day are treated for pesticide poisoning, death can come within hours, or a longer lasting liver malfunction ... the amounts of DDT in mothers' milk in Guatemala are the highest in the Western world. "It's very simple," explained a cotton planter, "more insecticide means more cotton, fewer insects mean higher profits." In an attack, guerrillas destroyed 22 crop-duster planes; the planes were quickly replaced thanks to the genius of American industry ... and all the pesticide you could ever want, from Monsanto Chemical Company of St. Louis." -- New York Times, 1977, describing pesticide use in Guatemala under US-supported military dictatoship.

" We lack a Nuremberg to judge the economic order imposed upon us, where every three years more men, women and children die of hunger and preventable diseases than died in the Second World War. " -- Fidel Castro, at a summit of Third World countries in Havana, April 12, 2000 And yet, Fidel was among the first to offer to help "We the People" and was turned down by "our" president.

‘Let us pray in this hour that nothing can divide us, and that God will help us against the Devil! Almighty Lord, bless our fight!’
-- Adolph Hitler to the SA in 1930.

 "We love your adherence to democratic principle." --- V.P. George Bush to Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos

"If justice requires the consent of the governed, then our [U.S.] whole past record of expansion is a crime." -- Henry Cabot Lodge

 

MORE on the phony Bush Photo Op in Mississippi.  Original German sources re W photo-op - Submitted by Tigana on Sun, 2005-09-04 10:29.  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/3/22494/85287  - Different German reporter in Biloxi - The German Tagesschau (first state channel, ZDF being the second) reported a similar scenario, with a different reporter.  Bottom line: When the convoy of the President arrived, hectic activity broke out for the first time, bulldozers appeared and cleared areas that didn't need clearing because nobody was still living there, and when the President disappeared, so did the bulldozers and workers. Christine Adelhardt, the reporter, said, that the fake scenario shocked her as much as the destruction she had seen.
http://www.tagesschau.de/video/0,1315,OID4700936_RESreal256_PLYinternal_NAV_BAB,00.html  (video only)
I could do a German transcription and English translation if you put it as an update so it doesn't get lost in the comments.  The Tagesschau has the strictest journalistic standards for news reporting.  And then another commercial German news channel with this:
Im schwer zerstörten Biloxi im US-Bundesstaat Mississippi war auÃYer den Sicherheitskräften keine Menschenseele auf der StraÃYe zu sehen - abgesehen von zwei jungen, attraktiven Afroamerikanerinnen, die Bush sofort an seine Brust drückte.
(In heavily destroyed Biloxi in the US state of Mississippi no soul was to be seen except the security forces - with the exception of two young attractive afroamerican girls, who Bush did immediately hug) http://www.n-tv.de/575243.html  Here you go. I can vouch for literal transcription and I kept the translation as literal as possible as well. Note, this is a live report from Biloxi.
TRANSCRIPTION - Zum letzten Stand jetzt live aus Biloxi Christine Adelhardt - Vor 2 Minuten ist hier gerade der Präsident in seinem Konvoi vorbeigefahren. Was sich hier in Biloxi aber während des Tages abgespielt hat, ist wirklich unglaublich. Plötzlich tauchten hier Bergungstrupps auf, plötzlich waren hier Räumfahrzeuge, die hatte man die ganzen Tage hier vorher nicht gesehen, und das in einem Gebiet, indem es wirklich nicht notwendig wäre, groÃY aufzuräumen, weil hier lebt weit und breit kein Mensch mehr, die Menschen sind weiter innen in der Stadt. Der Präsident reist mit einem Pressetross. Dieser Pressetross hat damit sehr schöne Bilder, die da sagen sollen, der Präsident war da und die Hilfe, die wird auch kommen. Das AusmaÃY der Naturkatastrophe hat mich geschockt aber das AusmaÃY der Inszenierung hier heute schockt mich mindestens genauso. Damit zurück nach Hamburg
TRANSLATION - On the last state of things here's Christine Adelhardt live from Biloxi -2 minutes ago the President drove past in his convoi. But what has happened in Biloxi all day long is truly unbelievable. Suddenly recovery units appeared, suddenly bulldozers were there, those hadn't been seen here all the days before, and this in an area, in which it really wouldn't be necessary to do a big clean up, because far and wide nobody lives here anymore, the people are more inland in the city. The President travels with a press baggage [big crew]. This press baggage got very beautiful pictures which are supposed to say, that the President was here and help is on the way, too. The extent of the natural disaster shocked me, but the extent of the staging is shocking me at least the same way. With that back to Hamburg. Here's a valid link to ZDF Germany article: http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/23/0,3672,2370967,00.html
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But, no matter how much crap hits the fan; we can always take comfort in this comment:  "This won't fly.  Yesterday's TV reported that 46% of Americans "approve" of the way Bush handled the disaster in New Orleans.  As long as this man can strut around like a rooster and hug a few tearful women, he can do no wrong!"

 

 

 

IN THIS EPA UPDATE: Model for Estimating Exposures and Risks to Birds and Mammals Now on Web - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making available on its Web site the Terrestrial Residue Exposure (T-REX) Model, which automates the calculations needed for estimating pesticide residues on foliage, seeds, and fields, and the potential acute and chronic risks to birds and mammals based on these exposures.  T-REX has been designed to be easy to use, yet maintains the level of flexibility needed for the multitude of chemicals and use patterns encountered by risk assessors. Replacing the Agency's previous terrestrial residues and risk calculation tools, this spreadsheet-based model allows the user to calculate dose- and dietary-based risk quotients, loadings or pesticide per unit area (LD50ft-2) for broadcast and banded (liquid and granular) pesticide applications, and seed treatment exposures to birds and mammals.  Risk quotients, which are a prediction of risk, are calculated by dividing the estimated exposure to a pesticide by an effects or toxicity endpoint such as an LC50 (the concentration of a chemical where 50% of the exposed organisms die).  The results are then presented by weight class for various size birds and mammals for each type of pesticide application. The spreadsheet file and user's guide for this model are available at: http://www.epa.gov/oppefed1/models/terrestrial/index.htm.

 

MCS - Dr. Grace Ziem”s article ALLERGIES AND CHEMICAL REACTIONS at: http://mcsbeaconofhope.com/drzm.html .  A federal panel of medical experts studying illnesses among veterans of the 1991 war in the Persian Gulf has broken with several earlier studies and concluded that many suffer from neurological damage caused by exposure to toxic chemicals, rejecting past findings that the ailments resulted mostly from wartime stress. Article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/politics/15gulf.html?oref=login&ei=5094&en=0f74f8004623b4bf&hp=&ex=1097812800&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print&position=  

Please sign and forward the petition for “World~Wide” Toxic Injury Awareness & Education at:

http://mcsbeaconofhope.com/prc2005m.html

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CONSEQUENCES OF CHILDHOOD CHEMICAL INJURY SURVEY - Participation in the following survey by anyone chemically injured during their childhood will be greatly appreciated.  Information will be included in a scientific poster that has been accepted by the upcoming 3rd International Scientific Conference, "Framing the Future in Light of the Past: Living in a Chemical World," being held September 18-21, 2005, in Bologna, Italy. www.ramazzini.it/living2005   Scientists may learn for the first time about the many related difficulties that chemically disabled children must overcome.  There has been little understanding and assistance available for those with this disability.  It is especially devastating for children who struggle to make their way through an often uncooperative educational system and must rely upon and be subjected to misinformed and consequentially dangerous physicians.  The intention of this poster will be to show the great need for specific disability assistance, properly educated physicians and the necessity of preventing these injuries.
The survey can be completed on the computer simply by cutting and pasting into an email.  Just delete whichever Yes or No (Y or N) answer that you disagree with, so that the sentence will read true (for instance) “Is Big Bird yellow?  Y.”  Any additional comments would be greatly appreciated and may be added under “additional comments”. You should have unlimited typing space, but be sure your keyboard “Insert” button is off or you will eliminate the next part of the survey.  To have responses included in the 3rd International Environmental Science Conference, they must be received within the next 7 days or no later than September 9th, 2005.   Later responses are welcome and may be incorporated into another paper or poster, but will not be able to be used in the September poster.
For additional information or questions, email: pace@... 

SENATE APPROVES $10.5 BILLION FOR HURRICANE RELIEF  - WASHINGTON, DC, September 2, 2005 (ENS) - Late last night the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill authorizing $10.5 billion in relief funding for the areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The House is expected to follow suit today. Congress returned to Washington from their summer recess early to address the devastation left Monday by the hurricane.

 

Title: Pesticide Use Reduction Evaluation (PURE) Project - Abstract: Evaluation of the effectiveness of approaches to environmental
exposure reduction remains a relatively under-developed area of research relevant to human health and environments. Toronto Public
Health and University of Toronto researchers are collaborating to determine if pesticide by-laws improve the effectiveness of education
campaigns in reducing outdoor urban pesticide use. While some research suggests regulatory approaches might be more effective than
purely educational efforts there is a need for more reliable, quantifiable, long-term data. We are designing a long-term evaluation study by reviewing relevant literature and via consultation with other municipalities and key informants. The aim is to provide information useful to municipalities seeking to make evidence-based decisions on urban pesticide reduction policy.  The co-investigators will present challenges and initial findings of key research components from the preliminary phase of this project.
http://www.cuhi.utoronto.ca/seminars/seminarschedule.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/04/nkhan04.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/09/04/ixhome.html

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Going Organic Can Shield Children From Pesticides - A study finds benefits are 'immediate' and suggests that youths are exposed to the chemicals primarily through food, not spraying of homes.By Marla Cone, Times Staff Writer. - Switching to organic foods provides children "dramatic and immediate" protection from pesticides that are widely used on a variety of crops, according to a study by a team of federally funded scientists. Concentrations of two organophosphate pesticides — malathion and chlorpyrifos — declined substantially in the bodies of elementary school-age children during a five-day period when organic foods were substituted for conventional foods. The two chemicals are the most commonly used insecticides in U.S. agriculture. More than 2 million pounds were applied to California crops in 2003, according to records of the state Department of Pesticide Regulation. The health effects of exposure to minute amounts of pesticides found in food are largely unknown, especially for children. Some research, however, suggests that the residue may harm the developing nervous system. http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2005/8418/abstract.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-na-organic3sep03,0,178205.story?coll=la-tot-promo&track=morenews

 

 

Pentagon War Crimes: 'DU Is A War Crime' - "One way or another, the Pentagon will pay a price. 'Depleted uranium (DU) is a war crime. It's that simple,' Dr. Doug Rokke says. 'Once you've scattered all this stuff around, and then refuse to clean it up, you've committed a war crime.'" Tests on returning troops suggest serious health consequences of depleted uranium use in Iraq.

http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=70&contentid=2706   See Also:

W.R. Grace Wants Trial Moved Out of Montana - By Carrie Johnson - Washington Post Staff Writer - Saturday, September 3, 2005; Page D02. Six years of inflammatory press coverage has irreparably biased potential jurors in a conspiracy and environmental crimes case against W.R. Grace & Co., according to court papers filed yesterday by the company's lawyers arguing that the trial should be moved out of state.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/02/AR2005090202393.html

Car fresheners 'can cause crashes'  By REBECCA TORR.  CAR air-fresheners could actually cause car crashes, according to a Bahrain-based aromatherapy expert. That is because they can cause sleepiness, headaches, irritability and even depression in drivers, says Spa Arabia Concepts managing director and spa consultant Betsy Mathieson Abdulrahman.    "Chemicals are all around you and car air-fresheners are among the worst," she told the GDN.  "We are being bombarded with chemicals, but car air-fresheners are worse because of the enclosed space. http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=121070&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=28167

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The (Still) High Cost of Organic Food By Christy Harrison, Grist Magazine - A recent study by researchers at the University of California-Davis reported that U.S. shoppers who consistently choose healthy foods spend nearly 20 percent more on groceries. The study also said the higher price of these healthier choices can consume 35 to 40 percent of a low-income family's grocery budget. That's bad news for public health. It's also bad news for the organic-food market, since organics usually carry the highest price tag of all the healthy stuff out there. http://www.alternet.org/story/24821/

 

 

 

 

 

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Nine Health Hazards in Katrina's Wake- How to stay well after a hurricane. -If life were fair, simply surviving a hurricane as devastating as Katrina would be good enough. But as the residents of the Gulf Coast have now discovered, there are plenty of threats to life and limb in the days and weeks after the skies have cleared. Here's a rundown of some the hazards: Drowning - Electrocution - Fire and Carbon-Monoxide Poisoning.- Physical Trauma - Gastrointestinal Illnesses - Despite common belief, there is generally no health danger from corpses in the water. Respiratory Ailments - Pre-existing Conditions - Allergies and Asthma - As residents return to their homes—if the structures are still standing—mold becomes an even greater issue, especially in the humid conditions of the Gulf Coast. Wet, porous items like carpet and upholstered furniture should be tossed. Wear a protective mask and clothing while cleaning up to minimize exposure. -Mental Health. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1099972,00.html See also:

http://www.mydna.com/health/diseases/biodefense/resources/news/200508/news_20050830_katfd.html and

 

Banana firm dismisses epidemic fears - THE banana company earlier accused of causing diseases on residents in Tamayong, Calinan due to its aerial spraying in the area Wednesday said the accusations are baseless and malicious.

 

U.S. eases air pollution rule to boost fuel supply  - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - To make more fuel available in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration said on Wednesday it will waive certain air pollution regulations for gasoline and diesel in all 50 states. The temporary easing of regulations will end on September 15, said Stephen Johnson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency. http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2005-08-31T185118Z_01_HAR164947_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-WEATHER-KATRINA-GASOLINE-DC.XML

 

CLOUT GROWING, SMALL-SCALE NATURAL FARMERS ARE BEING COURTED BY BIG FOOD - Third annual National Workshop on State and Local Food Policy: "Creating Opportunity Through Joint Producer Initiatives." - September 8-9, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa.  A farm-raised law school professor who grows organic vegetables that he sells to local restaurants is hosting a national conference to help small-scale farmers like himself work with each other to break into a food system that is increasingly interested in healthy food products that aren't produced by massive companies. "Many people attending the conference have been involved in selling at farmers markets," says Neil Hamilton, who grew up on a 200-acre family farm in Adams County, Iowa, where his family has farmed since 1872. "This will give them access to producers, distributors and capitalization. It's a significant step for a producer looking for an opportunity to break into the food system." Hamilton is on a mission to spread the notion of what he calls "Food Democracy" - getting more information about food and agriculture into the hands of consumers. He believes that "producer marketing associations" are the next big thing in the Food Democracy movement, because they allow groups of small farmers producing everything from organic milk to free range pigs to join together to sell their products. This year's conference, the third annual National Workshop on State and Local Food Policy is titled "Creating Opportunity Through Joint Producer Initiatives." It is co-organized by center staff Christine Pardee, co-director of the State and Local Food Policy Project, and Doug O'Brien, senior staff attorney. The conference is supported with funding from the USDA Risk Management Agency, Community Outreach & Assistance Partnership Program.
The conference, which will be held at Drake's Olmsted Center on Sept. 8 and 9, will convene a diverse group of farmers, agriculture leaders, lenders and advisers involved with producer marketing initiatives. Topics discussed will include financing, ownership and control, and risk management techniques.  Workshop participants will come from about 20 states and two countries, and include officials from Sysco, the world's largest institutional food supplier. Craig Watson, vice president for quality assurance and agricultural sustainability at Sysco Corp., will give a keynote address at noon on Thursday, Sept. 8. "His presence is significant," Hamilton says, "because it shows Sysco's interest in acquiring foods that have stories and are unique." For more information about the conference: http://en.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=41153054&u=378941 or call (515) 271-4956.

 

Bayer AG - http://www.hoovers.com/bayer/--ID__41808--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml
Monsanto Company - http://www.hoovers.com/monsanto/--ID__100932--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml

 

You'll find the latest information on our blog:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/31/national/main807164.shtml

For information on how you can help the recovery efforts:
http://www.cbsnews.com/elements/2005/08/30/in_depth_us/frameset806207.shtml

 

OFF-TOPIC: "Victory means exit stategy'' a critic of the President said, "and it's important for the President to explain to us what that exit strategy is."  That presidential critic was not some left-winged, bleeding heart, liberal Democrat.  It was then Govenor George W. Bush of Texas in 1999, talking about President Clinton's little war in Bosnia.  Now when we are up to our eyes in Iraqi sand and watching a very bad situation that Mr. Bush created, turn even worse and after we have spent over $300 Billion Dollars and lost more than 1,850 of our own soldiers - our Mr. Bush refuses to announce any time table for any U.S. troop withdrawal.............Amazing!

 

 

OFF-TOPIC: Hawaii puts cap on gas prices - Industry will watch closely; similar plan unlikely in California - HONOLULU — In an effort to gain some control over what motorists pay at the pump, Hawaii on Wednesday became the first state in the U.S. to set caps on the wholesale price of gasoline.  California motorists shouldn't expect similar caps anytime soon, state officials said.  The 2004 law authorizing the caps was intended to force Hawaii's two refiners, Chevron Corp. of San Ramon and Tesoro Corp., to set their wholesale prices closer to mainland rates. Proponents of the law said the refiners were taking advantage of the small, isolated market to charge exorbitant prices. http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/localnews/ci_2971754

 

This Week In Confined Space - http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/
Workplace Deaths Up in '04
Weekly Toll
McWane Guilty Again
Immigrant Workers Demand Health Screening From Company That Poisoned Them
Schwarzenegger's Secret Motives
New Orleans: As If The Water Wasn't Bad Enough...
Hurricane Warning
Public Employees: Live Like Slaves, Die Like Dogs (Part 5)
The Worst Job: OSHA Alliances and the Washington Post
Congressional Budget Office Says Asbestos Comp Fund May Not Cover Claims
This One Might Require A Bit Closer Look 
Live Like Slaves -- Part III (Public Employees Threaten Democracy)

 

Wednesday August 31, 2005 - Sherwood Park News - Natural golf course a hit with council Chemical-free Wild Splendor to use the lay of the land by Terri Kemball.  Sherwood Park News - The developer of a pesticide/herbicide-free golf course near South Cooking Lake has agreed to have that condition written into the development agreement.Bob More told council at a public hearing last week he has no interest in using chemicals at Wild Splendor.  http://www.sherwoodparknews.com/story.php?id=181676
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Wednesday August 31, 10:30 am ET - Press Release Source: Beyond Pesticides - Group Calls for Health-Based Approach to West Nile Virus; Widescale Spraying of Mosquito Pesticides Called Into Question - WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- A national public health advocacy organization today called on communities across the country to take a reasoned health-based approach in response to West Nile virus. The Washington-based group, Beyond Pesticides, is working with community residents who are asking for evidence that spraying their communities with toxic pesticides actually controls the virus and is worth the health risks associated with widespread public exposure. The federal agency responsible for determining the effectiveness of these spray practices, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has not conducted reviews, as required by law.  "Ground spraying in general is a waste of money," said noted entomologist and Cornell University professor David Pimentel. "Most ground spraying is political and has very little to do with effective mosquito control."  "EPA's lack of data on the effectiveness of mosquito sprays is problematic because it allows hazardous chemical use despite the availability of alternative preventive and less toxic approaches," said Jay Feldman, executive director of Beyond Pesticides, a national public health advocacy organization. Material can be found online at http://www.beyondpesticides.org/mosquito See also: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050831/dcw024.html?.v=24
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Sunday, August 28, 2005 - www.sfgate.com - Company banking on pesticide-free nurseries - by Dan Fost.  Organic Bouquet has only nine employees, but its founder, Gerald Prolman, foresees it growing like a weed...... He points to studies of the LOHAS movement -- an acronym for lifestyles of health and sustainability -- that claims 63 million consumers, or 30 percent of all U.S. households, with buying power of $230 billion. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/08/28/BUG62EE2P81.DTL
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Sep 1, 2005, Agri. & Environ. Roundup Revelation - Weed Killer Adjuvants May Boost Toxicity By Dorothy Bonn - EHP Environmental Health - Although the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup is generally thought to be less toxic to the ecosystem than other pesticides, concerns about its effects on human reproduction persist. In a study in Ontario, Canada, exposure of male farmers to glyphosate-based herbicides was associated with an increase in miscarriage and premature birth in farm families. Seeking an explanation for these pregnancy-related problems, researchers at France's Université de Caen investigated the effects of the full Roundup formulation and glyphosate alone on cultured human placental cells [EHP 113:716-720]. The herbicide, they found, killed the cells at concentrations far below those used in agricultural practice. Surprisingly, they also found that Roundup was at least twice as toxic as glyphosate alone.

http://www.foodconsumer.org/777/8/printer_Roundup_Revelation_-_Weed_Killer_Adjuvants_May_Boost_Toxicity.shtml
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30 August 2005 - NewScientist.com - Most scientific papers are probably wrong by Kurt Kleiner.  Most published scientific research papers are wrong, according to a new analysis. Assuming that the new paper is itself correct, problems with experimental and statistical methods mean that there is less than a 50% chance that the results of any randomly chosen scientific paper are true.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7915 
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[Federal Register: August 31, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 168)] [Notices] [Page 51790-51792] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr31au05-110] - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY - [OPP-2004-0385 FRL-7734-4] - Permethrin; Notice of Availability of Risk Assessments and Opening of Docket - AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice.  SUMMARY: This notice announces the availability of EPA's preliminary human health and ecological risk assessments and related documents for permethrin, a synthetic pyrethroid insecticide, and opens a public comment period on these documents. http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/05-17365.htm
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NO. 701 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING and NOTICE OF FILING A DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT Concerning the Proposed Basin Plan Amendment for the Control of Diazinon and Chlorpyrifos Discharges and Pesticide Runoff into the Lower San Joaquin River- The Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region (Central Valley Water Board) will hold a public hearing to consider adoption of the proposed amendment to the Basin Plan to control diazinon and chlorpyrifos discharges and pesticide runoff into the lower San Joaquin River. As part of amending the Basin Plan, the Central Valley Water Board will consider certification of the draft environmental documents (included in the draft Staff Report) prepared pursuant state law.
LOCATION: Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region 11020 Sun Center Drive, Suite 200 Rancho Cordova, CA 95670-6114. Further information about the date, time, and location will be available approximately two weeks before the hearing at:
www.waterboards.ca.gov/centralvalley/board_meetings The draft environmental documents included in the Draft Staff Report have been prepared for the proposed amendment. The Draft Staff Report will be available by 2 September 2005 for downloading in PDF format at: www.waterboards.ca.gov/centralvalley/programs/tmdl/sjrop/index.html - Copies of these documents may also be obtained by contacting or visiting the Central Valley Water Board's office at 11020 Sun Center Drive, #200, Rancho Cordova, California 95670-6114 weekdays between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.   Direct questions regarding the proposed amendments to Diane Beaulaurier at dbeaulaurier@... or at (916) 464-4637. http://www.sacbee.com/classads/notices/legal_notices/

 

Looking to Africa for Lessons in Dairy Farming - An Agricultural Research Service scientist has found an innovative way to manage the tons of animal waste that are produced each year on dairy farms.  But the idea isn't entirely his; African herdsmen have been practicing it for hundreds of years.  Mark Powell, an agroecologist at the agency's U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center in Madison, Wis., studies how nutrients are cycled on dairy farms.  He's knows that whatever goes into an agricultural system-the forage and supplements fed to cows-must come out.   www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr

 

 

Personal MCS Story in Louisiana - http://www.wtv-zone.com/infchoice/nancys_place.html 

 

We do not use service members as guinea pigs." --Asst. Sec. of Defense for Health Affairs William Winkenwerder stated....
http://www.congregator.net/medicalnews/sircus/Landmark1.html
Tuesday, August 30, 2005 - Army Proposal to use U.S. Soldiers as Human Test Subjects (originally posted on August 08, 2005)
M. Alexander Otto - Bureau of National Affairs - http://www.bna.com/press/guest/aotto.htm

 

Field-testing Bacterial Pathogens with Antibiotic Resistance Genes - http://www.i-sis.org.uk/index.php

OFF-TOPIC:  U.S. BLOOD NOT BUYING A FREE IRAQ (!!) - Please take the time to read this well written article: 
http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_1995.shtml Then read: http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/uploads/iraqi_blueprint_for_tyranny.pdf 
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If you do the math at $30/barrel, these imports amounted to over $18 BILLION!  With the price of oil over $50/barrel their take was over $30 Billion!!!!!  Today the price has risen to over $70/barrel and their take is now literally obscene.

Here are some large companies I was told Do Not Import Middle Eastern oil: